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Famous Carnatic Composers - RSS


Raamaswaamy Shivan - A musician of the late 1800s, he was the elder brother of Maha Vaidyanatha Iyer, and a composer and musician in his own right. They were born to Duraiswami Iyer alias Panchanatha Iyer and Arundathi. Duraiswami himself was a great musician and proficient in Tamil, Telugu and Sanskrit. Once while he was singing Thyagaraja's "Chakkani Raja" (Kharaharapriya), Sri Thyagaraja, who was passing by, blessed him saying that his two sons would become very famous in music. Duraiwami had four sons - Sambamurthy, Ramaswami, Vaidyanathan and Sivaraman (or Appaswami). They learned music from Anai and Ayya brothers and from Manambuchavadi Venkatasubbayyar, who was a direct disciple of Tyagaraja. Ramaswami was eleven and Vaidyanathan seven when their upanayanam was celebrated at Vaiyacheri. Later, Ramachandra Thondaiman, the ruler of Pudukkotai, invited Ramaswami and Vaidyanathan to his samasthanam, where they performed to great acclaim. Once Vaidyanathan was singing Dikshitar's "Aananda Natanaprakasam" in Kedaram. Ramaswami signalled to him make it into a pallavi in Tisra chapu, Khanda chapu and Misra chapu talam. This talam is called "dattaryeyam", that is one with three faces. At Tiruchedur temple, Ramaswami composed "Tiruchedur sandha virutham, Thiruchendil yamaha-anthathi." Vaidyanathan sang. Many compositions of his were co-authored with Maha Vaidyanatha Iyer. It was he who added additional brilliant cittaswaras to his brother's famous 72-mela ragamalika. In this composition, each line has a poorvanga (first half) in the same raga, but the uttaranga (second half) is in the next raga. Ramaswami Sivan composed Periyapurana Krithis, released in the Thiruvadudurai Adhinam. Both Ramaswami and Vaidyanathan composed the Guruvanakkam. Vaithyanathan began it and Ramaswami completed it. In concert, when Vaidyanatha Iyer sang, Ramaswami sitting to his right would keep the tambura in a horizontal position and keep sruthi. The concert would begin with Vatapi Ganapatim in hamsadvani followed by Ramaswami Sivan's "Ekkalathilum Maraven". The two brothers had two houses in Vaiyacheri (now destroyed). They had two houses in Tiruvayyaru in Bavaswami Agraharam in one of which the Aruvathi-moovar portrait existed and which are still intact.

Of Ramaswamy Sivan's kirtanas a few are quite popular, like ``Paahi-maam-Sri Raja Rajeswari'' (Janaranjani), ``Ekkaalaththilum-maravene'' (Nattakurinji), and ``Neeye-manamaghizhvodu'' (Kalyani). As for ragas, he used several and was fond of begada, as in his "Kadaikkann Vaittu". A rarer song is Muthu Kumaraiyane in 2-kalai roopakam rendered in six beats. His son MR Venkataraman succeeded him.

Mudra: Guhadaasa

Compositions:

  1. aDittAnE pANDiya - vasantA
  2. Anai mukhanE ambikai - AbhOgi
  3. Ananda naTEsA - tODi
  4. Ananda paravasharAi - udayaravicandrikA
  5. aruL puri ayyanE - dhanyAsi
  6. aruL sheidanan - malayamAruta
  7. aruLAdadu tan manamO - shankarAbharaNa
  8. avanO bAlan - mOhana
  9. AvAnO paramporuL - bilahari
  10. avatarittAnE dInargaLai - vasantA
  11. avatarittAnE mei - vasantA
  12. avatarittArE aruL - suraTi
  13. bAla lIlai seidAn - rItigauLa
  14. bAlanO vandennai - kAmbhOji
  15. cendUril vandirundAn - dEvamanOhari
  16. daNDanam seidArE - tODi
  17. davasi pOla vaDaindAr - kamalamanOhari
  18. dEvara siraiyai - dEvamanOhari
  19. ekkaalattilum - naaTTai kurinji
  20. enakkirangi aruLa - bhairavi
  21. ennavatishayam - mOhana
  22. gajamukhan nIyE - nAgasvarAvaLi
  23. guruparanai enda - behAg
  24. himAcalattinukku - yadululakAmbhOji
  25. himavAn maghaLAi - pUrNacandrikA
  26. igazhcciyum pugazhcciyO - dhanyAsi
  27. indap-poruLgaLukkuL - mOhana
  28. indrANiyum vandu - shankarAbharaNa
  29. inimEl Ayinum - darbAr
  30. kaDaikkaN vaittennai - bEgaDa
  31. kalyANa maNDapam tanil - Arabhi
  32. kandanai nI vandanai - kuntalavarALi
  33. kaNgaLArak-kaNDu - khamAs
  34. kUliyALAi vandu - bEgaDa
  35. kunjara mukhanE - shrIranjani
  36. kuzhandaiyAgi irundAL - behAg
  37. lIlaigaL purindiTTAnE - kEdAra
  38. mAl maruganai - bilahari
  39. mannA nI kELAi - vasantA
  40. mantirit-talaivarAi - shahAnA
  41. mOham niraindAnE - AbhOgi
  42. muttuk-kumarayyanE - shankarAbharaNa
  43. namakkOr kuraivumillai - rAmapriyA
  44. naTanam sheyyum paadanaar - kEdaara gowLa
  45. nAyakar aruL - madhyamAvati
  46. nIkEla dayarAdu - sarasAngi
  47. nIla mayil mEl varuvAi - kApi
  48. nIyE manamagizhvoDu - kalyANi
  49. nIyE pizhaikka - dhanyAsi
  50. pANigrahaNam sheidAn - cenjuruTi
  51. pANigrahaNam sheidAnE - shrI
  52. pUjanai sheidArE - madhyamAvati
  53. shAradA dEviyE nin - AbhOgi
  54. sharaNam sharaNam - shrIranjani
  55. shiva pUjai seidAn - khamAs
  56. singAdanattirundAn - nATakuranji
  57. sivikaiyin mEl - cakravAka
  58. sundarEshA svayamprakAshA - hEmavati
  59. tazhumbu paTTaduvE - suraTi
  60. tEril ErinAn guhan - pUrvikalyANi
  61. tillai cidambarattalam - kalyANi
  62. tinaip-punam tanil - sAmA
  63. tirukkurunda nizhalil - sAvEri
  64. tirumaghaL vaLarndALE - shahAnA
  65. tirumaNak-kOlam - kuntalavarALi
  66. tiruviLaiyADal seidAn - shankarAbharaNa
  67. tudi sheidiDu manamE - bhairavi
  68. un karuttedu - khamAs
  69. un pAda bhattiyai - simhEndramadhyam
  70. un padattai - kEdAra
  71. upadEshittaruLinAr - kharaharapriyA
  72. uttamanAm arimardhananE - tODi
  73. vAdavUrum ezhundu - shrI
  74. vandiyum varundi - kApi
  75. vEdanai sirai - shuddhasAvEri
  76. vElanE anukUlanE - Arabhi
  77. vEru tuNai - vAcaspati
  78. viDai koDuttAn - kurinji


updated on 05/07/2019